The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. The Problem. Final thoughts.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re building a consumer subscription app, this post is your new bible. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” It keeps us focused and ensures that we create value for the business while meeting customer needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 6 steps to being customer-centric and developing products customers want. Customer feedback is an important source of ideas for product managers. 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

Gong’s pods don’t just build in isolation—they partner with 12 to 20 design partners (existing customers) who give feedback every step of the way. When starting out, extreme focus on a specific customer profile can drive faster success. This is how you get teams to move fast and stay aligned.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder. One Size Does Not Fit All. This makes it hard to compare jobs, plan your career, and attract the right talent to your team.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

It will help you deliver value to users, tell a more inspiring story about your company, and recruit a team. The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. If customers keep coming back, it indicates that your product or service is meeting their needs and providing value.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. Without empowerment everything slows down and the people who are further away from what’s happening with customers make all the decisions. Point Towards the Mountain.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Brought to you by: • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product • Sprig ⁠⁠ —Build products for people, not data points • Sidebar —Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers — Tamar Yehoshua is the president of product and technology at Glean.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . I measure this in ratios: how many “makers” (including developers, designers, DevOps, researchers) are lined up against each product manager?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll learn about how they started rolling out the product trio model at Botify, some of the tools and tactics they’ve developed to guide their work, and what they’ve observed from the research they’ve conducted with other product leaders and trios. Do you have a Product in Practice you’d like to share? You can submit your story here.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). hitting a specific metric (revenue/users/conversion, etc). And with research showing that people who set goals are more likely to succeed than those who don’t, we should be all good… right? Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. CMOs know that marketing is more than redesigning logos or A/B testing email. </rant>

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

I love working closely with customers and collaborating across various organizational functions,” he said. He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. Over the years, we’ve seen a noticeable shift towards engaging more with customers.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. Is it me communicating best practices or is it them inviting me in because they’re a prospective customer?”. ” Being a Trusted Expert.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 3) power user curve showing a smile — with a big concentration of engaged users (you grow out from this strong core). 7) revenue or activity expansion on a *per user* basis over time — indicates deeper engagement / habit formation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leisa is responsible for building a better understanding of users and customers at Atlassian. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And refinement requires tough decisions that balance different stakeholder perspectives of value with how value changes over time based on evolving market conditions and customer need. This translates to faster delivery, greater customer satisfaction, and higher team happiness and motivation. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Real product managers are creators and are responsible for both value (ensuring the product meets customers’ needs) and viability (ensuring the product aligns with the business objectives). Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Few talk about the silent hero that boosts them to the elite level: consuming the written word. Most interesting are the three product manager archetypes (which one do you fit under?) 5 Designing Your Product’s Continuous Feedback Loop. So do your customers. Author: Jonathan Golden. . #5 Author: Sachin Rekhi.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests. “Our top two enhancements were requested by dozens of customers, including big players A, B, C and D.

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